The retrospective examines the most important moments in Artur Lescher’s
career and gathers 120 works, including installations, sculptures, models,
and sketchbooks. The exhibition highlights how Lescher has concerned
himself with the concept of gravity since the start of his career, using
engineering and mathematics to support his own poetic expression.

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Artur Lescher’s sculpture first drew critical attention following his
participation in the 19th Bienal de São Paulo in 1987. The artist has since
gone on to explore his relationship with the exhibition space, intervening
subtly in this space to leave the observer with a memory of that place. In
pursuing this concern, his interests range from model building to astrology,
through mathematics, architecture and mythology. For the Pinacoteca
exhibition his 30 years of investigation have been separated into three
axes/rooms: (1) Narrativas Líquidas (Liquid Narratives), which examines
both the potential and the challenges of materials; (2) Suspensão
(Suspension) on verticality in sculpture; and (3) Engenharia da memória
(Engineering of Memory), which presents the artist’s investigations into a
rewriting and imaginary construction of the city.

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Narrativas Líquidas includes sculptures that offer a counterpoint to the
organic image of nature. His works in the series Rios (Rivers) (2004-
2019), for example, resemble the waterfalls and courses of rivers which,
despite having been made using solid, gross materials such as felt, paper,
wood, steel and stone, evoke transparency and fluidity. Camila Bechelany
explains “The material is not used as an art media – he defies the form
and explores spatial reality, through balance, the mass that it supports, or
even its resistance.”

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